Global purchasing: State of the art and research directions

Purchasing Organization and Design: A Literature Review

“…International business (1 article) and general management journals (2 articles), in contrast, gave limited attention to structural aspects of purchasing. These results confirm those of Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens (2006a) and Pagano (2009) in the field of supply management. In addition, 11 articles were identified that appeared in journals other than the 42 selected.…”

“…(1) The selection of journals is based on the suggestions by Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens (2006a) Pagano (2009) and Walker (2009), who provided literature reviews in the context of purchasing. Thus, a journal list was generated by selecting the most relevant journals in the disciplines general management, international business, international marketing management, and operations and supply (chain) management.…”

“…Thus, a journal list was generated by selecting the most relevant journals in the disciplines general management, international business, international marketing management, and operations and supply (chain) management. The most relevant journals in the respective disciplines were selected by referring to the papers by Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens (2006a) Pagano (2009) and Dubois and Reeb (2000) for international business, Hult, Neese, and Bashaw (1997) Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens (2006a) and Pagano (2009) for marketing, Peng (2001) Pagano (2009) and Walker (2009) for general management, and Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens (2006a) Pagano (2009) and Walker (2009) for operations and supply (chain) management. Through this approach, 42 journals were selected in total.…”

“…In the area of purchasing, researchers have studied patterns in the organization of purchasing, identified contextual factors that influence its design or analyzed the contribution of the PO to purchasing performance (PP) or the performance of the entire organization. Although a large number of works have appeared that study the organization of purchasing, several authors noted that prior research has been widely unstructured and that a more systematic approach towards research on the PO is necessary (Trent and Monczka 2003;Gelderman and Semeijn 2006;Quintens, Pauwels, and Matthyssens 2006a;Trautmann, Turkulainen, Hartmann, and Bals 2009). This paper presents the results of an extensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the period from 1967 to 2009.…”

The influence of organizational structure on international purchasing success

“…Yet research often still lacks strong theoretical and systematic insights on the intricacies of purchasing success and does not make enough use of advanced empirical methods (see for instance Murray, Kotabe, & Zhou, 2005;Quintens, Pauwels, & Matthyssens, 2006b;Tressin & Richter, 2014).…”